Gehry reveals his glass art house

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A spectacular design for a palace made of fractured glass cubes was presented yesterday as the home for a new Paris museum of contemporary art. Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American architect behind the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, unveiled his design at the announcement of a lavish project that is aimed at putting Paris back on the map of contemporary architecture and art.

Bernard Arnault, boss of the LVMH empire and France’s richest man, hired the star architect to build a showcase for his Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, which is to open in the Bois de Boulogne in